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From staff reports
Zachery Allen Collins managed to elude police on April 2. He wasn’t so lucky last Wednesday.
According to a Roane County Sheriff’s Office Incident report, officers to went to 937 Post Oak Valley Road to arrest Collins on outstanding warrants for theft, reckless driving, reckless endangerment and evading arrest.

Roane County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Tim Phillips and Deputy Wes Stooksbury traveled to Phoenix last week.
The two lawmen weren’t there to sightsee, however. They went to pick up a prisoner from one of the jails in Maricopa County, Ariz.
James. A. Tiegs was wanted in Roane County for a sexual offender registration violation and aggravated sexual battery.
“We flew out Wednesday,” Phillips said. “Stayed the night, got up and went and got our prisoner and flew back.”

Holocaust Remembrance Day is Thursday, April 19, and Nancy Miller’s fifth-grade after-school class at Ridge View Elementary is doing something to remember the 6 million people murdered during Nazi Germany’s systematic persecution of Jewish people and others across Europe.

Miller asked Rockwood City Council to approve a proclamation last week declaring April 15-22 as Days of Remembrance. They will have a ceremony at Rockwood’s Homecoming Park on Rockwood Street at 6 p.m. Thursday to remember the victims and liberators.

After placing a request for in-lieu-of-tax payments from the county on its agenda at an April work session, Kingston City Council members let the motion die on the vine when it came time a for a vote on the issue April 10.

Council members decided on April 3 to place a letter on the April 10 full council agenda seeking in-lieu-of-tax payments for county facilities on city commercial property.

Such payments involve voluntary fees paid from one governmental entity to another to make up for lost tax revenue.

Roane County Animal Control Director John Griffin said he didn’t expect any charges to be filed in the killing of a class rabbit at Midway High School because no students would come forward and state what happened.

A story in Friday’s print edition may have caused some confusion because it included conflicting comments from Griffin made during different stages of the investigation.

Avery Trace Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution recently had its annual genealogy workshop.

Materials were given to each individual attending, and genealogy experts Shirley Smith and Marcia Pickel discussed resources for researching family history. Among them was the recently released 1940 U.S. Census records.